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The centre-right (or center-right), also known as right of centre, is a political term commonly used to describe or denote individuals, political parties, or organizations (such as think tanks) whose views stretch from the centre to the right on the left-right spectrum, excluding far right stances. Centre-right can also describe a coalition of centrist and right-of-centre parties. Many political parties of the centre-right are known to have various factions and members who advocate right-of-centre policies.
Ideological definition of the centre-right
A definition of the term "centre-right" is necessarily broad and approximate because political terms have varying meanings in different countries. Parties of the centre-right generally support capitalism, the market economy, limited forms of government regulation, private property rights, and opposition to socialism and communism. Such definitions generally include political parties that base their ideology and policies upon conservatism and economic liberalism.
Parties that subscribe to social liberalism are often associated with the centre-left whereas those on the right of the liberal movement are often defined as conservative liberals or liberal conservatives. Centre-right parties often ground themselves in social conservative and traditionalist values and civic or liberal nationalism; as such, most predominantly Christian states possess a competitive centre-right Christian democratic party, while centre-right parties in predominantly Islamic countries may claim to uphold traditional Islamic values (as with the Pakistan Muslim League (Q) and Pakistan Muslim League (N) and the Bangladesh Nationalist Party) and so on.
Centre-right social liberalism
However, it is not always the case that centre-right political parties are monolithic social conservatives. In the case of Britain's David Cameron and current New Zealand Prime Minister John Key and his New Zealand National Party, there tends to be some pragmatic acceptance of what might be called 'centre-right social liberalism', an acceptance of feminism and LGBT rights politics as well as closure of the abortion debate to ensure that the party attracts feminist women or lesbians and gay men who accept centre-right philosophies of limited government and fiscal responsibility in public sector expenditure.[citation needed] From this perspective, social conservatives are viewed as a constituency that is fixated on culture war polarising issues and uninterested in core centre-right market-based economic policies.[citation needed]
Populism and the centre-right
The use of centre-right is sometimes expanded to include populist right-of-centre parties such as the Law and Justice in Poland, the Freedom Party of Austria or the Danish People's Party. While the Freedom Party and the Danish People's Party would generally be classified as right-wing, parties like Law and Justice are both populist and conservative, and so are sometimes classified centre-right.[1][2]
In New Zealand, however, Finance Minister Ruth Richardson's welfare cutbacks and sharply reduced government expenditure led to polarisation and fission within the New Zealand National Party of the early nineties. One particular dissident populist National MP, Winston Peters, broke away and successfully secured re-election to his Tauranga seat, appealing to elderly social conservative opponents of New Right market-based economic and social policies. His New Zealand First political party entered coalition with the National Party, only to abandon it. From 2005, it entered a confidence and supply agreement with the third-term New Zealand Labour Party administration of then-Prime Minister Helen Clark. In the United Kingdom, there are similar tensions between libertarian/centre-right social liberal party members and social conservative party members.[3]
Examples of centre-right parties
- Examples of centre-right political parties include:
- In Albania:
- In Argentina:
- In Australia:
- The Coalition including:
- Liberal National Party of Queensland formed after Lib/Nat merger at State level.
- Country Liberal Party, a Northern Territory based party, affiliated with the Liberal and National parties, and a member of the Coalition.
- In The Bahamas:
- In Brazil:
- In Canada:
- In the Republic of China:
- The Pan-Blue Coalition including:
- In Chile:
- In Costa Rica:
- In The Czech Republic:
- In Cyprus:
- In Denmark:
- In the Dominican Republic
- In the European Parliament:
- In Finland:
- In France:
- In Germany:
- In Ghana:
- In Greece:
- In Hungary:
- In Iceland:
- In India
- In Ireland:
- In Israel
- In Italy:
- In Japan:
- In Republic of Korea
- In Luxembourg:
- In Macedonia:
- In Malta:
- In Mexico:
- In The Netherlands:
- In New Zealand
- In Norway:
- In Pakistan:
- The Pakistan Muslim League (N)
- The Pakistan Muslim League (Q)[dubious ]
- The Original Pakistan Muslim League
- In the Philippines:
- In Poland:
- In Portugal:
- In Romania:
- In Serbia:
- In Slovakia:
- In Slovenia:
- In Spain:
- In Sri Lanka:
- In Sweden:
- The Alliance for Sweden coalition including:
- In Switzerland:
- In Turkey:
- In the United Kingdom:
- In the United States:
- In Uruguay:
See also
- Glossary of the French Revolution
- International Democrat Union
- Ideology
- Left-Right politics
- Moderate
- Nolan chart
- Political compass
- Political spectrum
- World's Smallest Political Quiz
References
- ^ Power and Influence in the European Union: Can New Member States Set the Policy Agenda?
- ^ 'Twin brothers who stole the moon', Polskie Radio, 05.01.2007
- ^ 'Conservatism has always been characterised by tension between paternalism and libertarianism.', coursework.info
- ^ Republic of Ireland Political Compass